they shewed Monsieur D'Aulney's [letter] to the Governor, by Captain Bailey, wherein he writes that the King of France had laid all the blame upon the Vice Admiral, and commanded him not to break with them upon that occasion. They also alleged the peace formerly concluded without any reservation of those things. They replied, that howsoever the King of France had remitted his own interest, yet he had not nor intended to deprive Monsieur D'Aulney of his private satisfaction; here they did stick two days. Their Commissioners alleged damages to the value of £8000, but did not stand upon the value, and would have accepted ||of || very small satisfaction, if they would have acknowledged any guilt in their government. In the end they came to this conclusion; they of the Bay accepted their Commissioners' answer, in satisfaction of those things they had charged upon Monsieur D'Aulney; and his Commissioners accepted their answer, for clearing their government of what he had charged upon them. And because they could not free Captain Hawkins and the other volunteers of what they had done, they were to send a small present to Monsieur D'Aulney in satisfaction of that, and so all injuries and demands to be remitted, and so a final peace to be concluded.

Accordingly they sent Monsieur D'Aulney a fair new sedan, (worth £40 or £50 where it was made, but of no use to them,) sent by the Viceroy of Mexico to a lady that was his sister, and taken in the West Indies by Captain Cromwell, and by him given to the Governor of the Massachusetts. This the Commissioners very well accepted; and so the agreement being signed in several instruments, by the Commissioners of both parties, on the 28th day of the same month they took leave and departed to the pinnace, the Governor and the Commissioners accompanying them to their boat, attended with a guard of musketeers. And so their dismission was as honorable as their reception, with such respect as New England was capable to manifest to the King of France's LieutenantGeneral of Acady.

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On the Lord's Day they carried themselves soberly, having the liberty of a private walk in the Governor's garden, and the use of such Latin and French authors, as they could there be furnished with.

The two first days after their arrival they kept up their flag on the main top, as they said was the custom for the King's ships, whether English, French, or Dutch ; but being minded that it was offensive to some Londoners, then in the harbor, as well as to the people of the country, M. Marie gave order to have it taken down.

But the forlorn of these French Monsieurs' history, being thus far marched before, it is now time to bring up the rear. La Tour's Lady we saw before safely conducted into her own fort, in despite of all D'Aulney's endeavors. In the mean time La Tour himself (who was as well defective in courage as conduct) was coasting to and again, to look after a barkload of provision, and in the mean time left his fort and all his whole estate to the care of his Lady, in the very gulph of danger, and precipice of utter ruin. For in the end of April, 1645, news was brought to Boston, that D'Aulney with all his strength both of men and vessels was before his fort. The Governor and Assistants of the Massachusetts were at a stand, to know what might lawfully be done for the saving it out of the hands of D'Aulney, who, like a greedy lion, was now ready to swallow down his prey. They were the more solicitous in this business, because divers of the merchants of New England were deeply engaged in the behalf of La Tour, and if his fort were once taken they were never like to be reimbursed. Some think it had been better they had never engaged at all in his behalf, than after so great hopes given him, for dependence on them, thus to have left him in the snare. The next news brought from St John's River was, that La Tour's fort was scaled, and taken by assault, that D'Aulney had lost twelve men in the assault, and had many wounded, and that he had put to death all the men which were taken in the fort, both French and English, and that La Tour's

Lady being taken, died with grief within three weeks after. The jewels, plate, household stuff, ordnance, and other movables, were valued at £10,000. The more was his folly that left so great substance at so great hazard, when he might easily have secured it in the hands of his correspondents, with whom he traded in the Massachusetts, whereby he might have discharged his engagement of more than £2,500 to Major Gibbons, (who now by this loss was quite undone,) and might have somewhat also wherewith to have maintained himself and his men, in case his fort should have been taken, as it was very likely it might, having to deal with treacherous friars within his own precincts, as well as a malicious neighbor, encouraged against him by the power of France. But goods gotten after that rate seldom descend to the third heir, as heathens have observed. In the spring of the year he went to Newfoundland, in hope to receive some considerable assistance from Sir David Kirk, another great truckmaster in those coasts, who failing to perform, (if not what himself promised, to be sure he did, as to what the other needed, and expected,) so as he returned to New England again, in the latter end of the year 1645, in a vessel of Sir David's, and soon after was sent out to the Eastward, by some merchants of Boston, with trading commodities, to the value of £400. When he came to Cape Sables, (which was in the heart of winter,) he conspired with the master (who was a stranger) and five of his own Frenchmen, to force the Englishmen ashore, and so go away with the vessel. It was said that La Tour himself shot one of the Englishmen in the face with a pistol. But to be sure they were all turned adrift in a barbarous manner, and if they had not, by special Providence, found more favor at the hands of Cape Sable Indians, than of those French Christians, they might have all perished; for having wandered fifteen days up and down, they, at the last, found some Indians who gave them a shallop with victuals, and an Indian pilot, by which means they came safe to Boston about three months after.' Thus they that

1 In May, 1646.-H.

trust to an unfaithful friend do but wade in unknown waters, and lean on a broken reed, which both woundeth as well as deceiveth those that rely thereon.

CHAP. LV.'

The general affairs of New England, from the

to 1651.

year 1646

MR. WINTHROP was this year, the ninth time, chosen Governor of the Colony of the Massachusetts, and Mr. Dudley Deputy Governor, on the 13th day of May, which was the day of election there in the year 1646. Mr. Pelham3 and Mr. Endicot were chosen Commissioners for the same Colony, by the vote of the freemen. The magistrates and deputies had hitherto chosen them, since the first Confederation, but the freemen, looking at them as general officers, would now choose them themselves, and the rather because of some of the deputies had formerly been chosen to that office, which was not, as was said, so acceptable to some of the Confederates, no more than to some of themselves; for it being an affair of so great moment, the most able gentlemen in the whole country were the fittest for it.

This Court lasted but three weeks, and notice was taken, that all things were therein carried on with much peace and good correspondence to the end of the session, when they departed home in much love. It was by special Providence so ordered, that there should be so good accord and unanimity in the General Court, when the minds of so many dissenters were so resolutely bent to make an assault upon the very foundation of their government; for if the tackling had been loosed, so as they could not have strengthened their mast, the lame would at that time have easily taken the prey. For Mr. William Vassal, one of the Patentees, that came over in the year 1630, (when he was also chosen an Assistant,) but not complying with the rest of his colleagues, nor yet able to make a party amongst them, returned for England

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'LIV in the MS.6th, says Winthrop.-H. • Herbert Pelham. He was chosen, Dec. 27, 1643, first treasurer of Harvard College.-H. ♦ A slight mistake; he was chosen Assistant, Oct. 20, 1629. See page 124.-H.

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soon after; but not satisfying himself in his return, came back again to New England in the year 1635, and then settled himself at Scituate, in the jurisdiction of New Plymouth; a man of a pleasant and facetious wit, and in that respect complacent in company; but for his actings and designs of a busy and §as factious spirit, and indeed a meer salamander by his disposition, that could take content in no element but that of the fire; and in his discourse did usually, in all companies, bear the part of Antilegon, as he was called by a friend of his, and was always found opposite to the government of the place, where he lived, both ecclesiastical and civil. It was the less wonder that he appeared such, in the Colony of the Massachusetts, both while he was an inhabitant there, and where else he came. He had practised with such as were not freemen to take some course, first by petitioning the Courts of the Massachusetts and of Plymouth, and if that succeeded not, to apply themselves to the Parliament of England, pretending that here they were subjected to an arbitrary power and extrajudicial proceedings, &c.

Here was the source of that petition, presented to the Court of the Massachusetts, under the hands of several inhabitants of Boston, in the name of themselves and many others in the country. That Court they pressed to have had a present answer. It was delivered in to the deputies, and subscribed by Doctor Child,' Mr. Thomas Fowle, and Mr. Samuel Maverick, and four more.2

But the Court being then near at an end, and the matter being very weighty, they referred the further consideration thereof to the next sessions.

But in the mean time they were encountered with other difficulties, in reference to some of Gorton's company, with whom they had been much troubled in the former lustre; for on the 13th of September, Randall Holden arrived at Boston, in a ship from London, bringing with him an Order from the Commissioners for Foreign Plantations, drawn up upon the complaint, and in favor, of the forementioned Familists, which were too much

' Robert Child, whom Hutchinson speaks of as a young gentleman just come from Padua, where he studied physic, and, as was reported, had taken the degree of doctor."-H. Mr. Thomas Burton, Mr. John Smith,

Mr. David Yale, and Mr. John Dand.-H.